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The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists

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Sale 485: Fine Press - Illustrated Books - Miscellanea: The Library of Byron L. Nishkian (with additions) (#485) 08/02/2012 11:00 AM PDT Closed
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Lot #34 The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists

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(Colt Press)

Title:

The Boys in the Back Room: Notes on California Novelists

Author:

Wilson, Edmund

Place Published:

San Francisco

Publisher:

The Colt Press

Date Published:

1941

Description:

72 pp. 9½x6¼, linen, paper cover & spine labels, page edges untrimmed. No. 89 of 100 copies printed on special paper. First Edition.

Signed by the author in the colophon. Inscribed and signed by printer/publisher Jane Grabhorn on the front free endpaper. Wilson's important evaluation of Steinbeck on pages 41-53, along with five other West Coast authors: James M. Cain, William Saroyan, John O'Hara, Hans Otto Storm, and, briefly, F. Scott Fitzgerald (who had later moved to Hollywood). Goldstone & Payne F10.

Condition:

Mild soiling to covers, slight offset to endpapers, very good or better.

Item#:

229152

Headline:

Wilson The Boys in the Back Room signed limited
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